The aliens; a history of ethnic minorities in America by Leonard Dinnerstein(
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1970
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This book is organized in four parts. Part one, "The Colonial Era," includes the following essays: "The treatment of the Indians
in Plymouth Colony," D. Bushnell; "The dynamics of unopposed capitalism," S. Elkins; "Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania
Germans," G. Weaver; and "Frontier society," J. Leyburn. Part two, "The Young Republic," includes such essays as: "Indian
removal and land allotment: the civilized tribes and Jacksonian justice," M. Young; "The black worker," W.E.B. Du Bois; "When
America was the land of Canaan," (an essay concerning Scandinavian immigrants) G. Stephenson; "The attempt to found a new
Germany in Missouri," J. Hawgood; and, "The development of group consciousness," (an essay concerning Irish immigrants) O.
Handlin. Part three, "The Industrial Transformation," includes such essays as: "An Indian's view of Indian affairs," J. Young;
"The new slavery in the South--an autobiography," a Georgia Negro Peon; "Quebec to 'Little Canada': The coming of the French
Canadians to New England in the Nineteenth century," I. Podea; "Jews in America," The Editors of Fortune; "The Polish-American
community," W. Thomas and F. Znaniecki; and "White community and 'Yellow Peril, '" F. Matthews. Part four, "Ethnic minorities
in contemporary America," includes five essays. A coda to this volume is the essay: "American Negro and Immigrant Experience:
similarities and differences," J. Appel. (Jm)

A scapegoat in the new wilderness : the origins and rise of anti-semitism in America by Frederic Cople Jaher(
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1994
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1996
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Home to nearly half of the world's Jews, America also harbors its share of anti-Jewish sentiment. In a country founded on
the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility, and no national church, how did anti-Semitism
become a presence here? And how have America's beginnings and history affected the course of this bigotry? Frederic Cople
Jaher considers these questions in A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness, the first history of American anti-Semitism from its
origins in the ancient world to its first widespread outbreak during the Civil War. Comprehensive in approach, the book combines
psychological, sociological, economic, cultural, anthropological, and historical interpretation to reveal the nature of anti-Semitism
in the United States. Jaher sets up a comparative framework, in which American anti-Semitism is seen in relation to other
forms of ethnic and religious bigotry. He compares America's treatment of Jews to their treatment in other eras and countries,
and notes variations by region, social group, and historical period. Jaher shows us that although anti-Semitism has been less
pronounced in America than in Europe, it has had a significant place in our culture from the beginning, a circumstance he
traces to intertwining religious and secular forces reaching back to early Christianity, with its doctrinal animosity toward
Jews. He documents the growth of this animosity in its American incarnation through the 1830s to its virulent and epidemic
climax during the Civil War. Though Christianity's dispute with Judaism accounts for the persistence of anti-Semitism, Jaher
reveals the deeper roots of this pathology of prejudice in the human psyche - in primal concerns about defeat, enfeeblement,
and death, or in visceral responses of intergroup and interpersonal envy and rivalry. An in-depth study of all phases of anti-Jewish
feeling as it is manifested in politics, economic behavior, cultural myth and legend, religious and social interaction, and
the performing arts, this uniquely comprehensive work offers rare insight into the New World's oldest ethnic and religious
hatred

The Jews and the nation : revolution, emancipation, state formation, and the liberal paradigm in America and France by Frederic Cople Jaher(
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2002
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2009
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330 WorldCat member
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"This book is the first systematic comparison of the civic integration of Jews in the United States and France - specifically,
from the two countries' revolutions through the American republic and the Napoleonic era (1775-1815). Frederic Jaher develops
a vehicle for a broader and uniquely rich analysis of French and American nation-building and political culture. He returns
grand theory to historical scholarship by examining the Jewish encounter with state formation and Jewish acquisition of civic
equality from the perspective of the "paradigm of liberal inclusiveness" as formulated by Alexis de Tocqueville and Louis
Hartz." "Jaher argues that the liberal paradigm worked for American Jews but that France's illiberal impulses hindered its
Jewish population in acquiring full civic rights. He also explores the relevance of the Tocqueville-Hartz theory for other
marginalized groups, particularly blacks and women in France and America. However, the experience of these groups suggests
that the theory has its limits." "A central issue of this penetrating study is whether a state with democratic-liberal pretensions
(America) can better protect the rights of marginalized enclaves than can a state with authoritarian tendencies (France).
The Tocqueville-Hartz thesis has become a major issue in political science, and this book marks the first time it has been
tested in a historical study. The Jews and the Nation returns a unifying theory to a discipline fragmented by microtopical
scholarship."--Jacket